Just downloaded and watched the AM III speech about expetations about the end.
All I think it is ment to temper the high expetations that the rank and file have build up because of the pandemic.
Most JW think that the big end will come now.
GB must be anticipating the anti climax that will come.
It is a very rare speech, I can say, and AM III was in a realistic mood, the audience was laughing and he was thinking "you are idiots", so it seems to me.
G.